rwbs - 65

rwbs@Isaiah:65:1 @ I am sought by asked not; I am found by sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation was not called by my name.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walketh in a way not good, after their own thoughts;

rwbs@Isaiah:65:3 @ A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; (note:)upon…: Hebrews. upon bricks(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:4 @ Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable their vessels; (note:)broth: or, pieces(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:5 @ Who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. (note:)nose: or, anger(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

rwbs@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing in it: so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:9 @ And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:10 @ And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:11 @ But ye they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number. (note:)troop: or, Gad(:note)number: or, Meni, a pagan god

rwbs@Isaiah:65:12 @ Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose in which I delighted not.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

rwbs@Isaiah:65:14 @ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit. (note:)vexation: Hebrews. breaking(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:15 @ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

rwbs@Isaiah:65:16 @ That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:17 @ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (note:)come…: Hebrews. come upon the heart(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:18 @ But be ye glad and rejoice for ever which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:19 @ And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:20 @ There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:21 @ And they shall build houses, and inhabit; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree the days of my people, and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (note:)shall long…: Hebrews. shall make them continue long, or, shall wear out(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:65:23 @ They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:24 @ And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

rwbs@Isaiah:65:25 @ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 65